striped muscle

British  

noun

1. Also called: skeletal muscle.  a type of contractile tissue that is marked by transverse striations; it is concerned with moving skeletal parts to which it is usually attached Compare smooth muscle

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Example Sentences

This author not only identifies the centrosome with the structures seen in lymph cells, &c., but compares it to the basal granules of ciliated cells and to the varicose swellings on the sarcostyles of striped muscle cells!

From Project Gutenberg

Creatine, krē′a-tin, n. a constant and characteristic constituent of the striped muscle of vertebrates—also Kre′atine.—adj.

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Make one exception and who knows, some official might decide to do a game in a striped muscle shirt and Speedo.

From Seattle Times

Surgical Anatomy.—The tongue is composed of interlaced, striped muscle fibres, partly consisting of the terminations of the extrinsic muscles, and partly of the intrinsic muscles.

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Among the other great acquisitions gradually evolved we may notice: a well-developed head with sense-organs, the establishment of large internal surfaces such as the digestive and absorptive wall of the food-canal, the origin of quickly contracting striped muscle and of muscular appendages, the formation of blood as a distributing medium throughout the body, from which all the parts take what they need and to which they also contribute.

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